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Quotes about Unforeseen

The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate.
- Matthew 24:50
I began to trust the world again, not to give me what I wanted, for I saw that it could not be trusted to do that, but to give unforeseen goods and pleasures that I had not thought to want.
- Wendell Berry
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
- Thomas Paine
This was not how I wanted to die. Not even close. And then my ex-girlfriend fell out of the sky.
- Ernest Cline
Divinity is always where one least expects to find it.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Thomas Merton who said: "The will of God is not a 'fate' to which we must submit, but a creative act in our life that produces something absolutely new, something hitherto unforeseen by the laws and established patterns. Our cooperation consists not solely in conforming to external laws, but in opening our wills to this mutually creative act."5
- Fr. Richard Rohr